Wordless Wednesday

Visual Journals

Visual Journaling is the subject of the my latest purchase on Amazon: The Journal Junkies Workshop by Eric M. Scott & David R. Modler. These gentlemen are certainly fans of Dan Eldon. And they say so right from the get go in a dedication to Dan and his mother Kathy (Dan's journals are totally another subject). The high point of Journal Junkies is its "Dan Eldon" look, which makes it a fun book to just browse through. The drawings and illustrations presented are eye candy that you just want more of, and I've found inspiration here to incorporate into my written journals.

Journaling

Journaling, a subject dear to my heart. I practice it regularly and have taught classes on how to do it. I just got a new book on Visual Journaling which I may review later, and it gave me a few new ideas to add to what I already do. I have tried Art Journaling or Visual Journaling, but I still come back to mainly writing words. It's a way to keep track of my fascinating life.

The example above is something new I tried at the beginning of 2010, which comes about as close to Art Journaling that I've done. I had heard that Teesha Moore used painted pages with boarders, so I tried it. I painted a bunch of pages and then added the boarders of 1 in. strips of interesting stuff I found. But I produced mainly pages to write on; coordinating pen and paint color. That went on for about 3 mos. and then I was ready for a change. Teesha's pages are much more elaborate and truly wonderful, with collage and markers (check it out on Youtube). I don't know how she finds time to write in her journals.